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Introduction of Coffee producing areas in Colombia

Colombia straddles the northern and southern hemispheres, and most of the country's coffee-producing areas are located between 2 and 8 degrees north latitude. Coffee-producing areas are concentrated in the "three rivers and two rivers" area, that is, the part of the Andes (Cordillera Mountains) in Colombia. Colombia's rivers almost originate from the Andes. Most of the good coffee producing areas have high poster height (2600-3000 meters in the Colombian capital BOGOTA poster), fertile soil (Huilan volcano Nevado del huila, Jarera volcano Nevado del Galers) valley (Andes), rainforest, crisscross plateau, abundant precipitation (warm and humid air from the Pacific Ocean), high Andean mountains form a variety of micro-topographic climate. These natural conditions provide Colombia with conditions conducive to coffee cultivation. Colombia is the third (and second) coffee producer and exporter in the world with high yield and high quality, but there is no doubt that Colombia is the world's largest exporter of Arabica coffee and the largest exporter of washed beans. Such a large yield is due to Colombia's unique natural soil and water environment and scientific planting technology. The main varieties of Colombian coffee beans are Tibika, Bourbon, pointed Bourbon, Kaddura, Elephant Bean, Cabernet, Rosa, Moka and Pacamara. Among them, Kaddura, which is not well grown in Brazil, is the main variety of boutique coffee beans, while the improved variety Katiwen has good disease resistance because it has become the main variety of high-yield commercial coffee beans.

As we all know, in the coffee growing industry, the rainy season determines the coffee harvest season. Throughout Colombia, the main harvest season of Colombian coffee is from October to February of the following year, and the secondary harvest season is from April to September each year. It is generally believed that the quality of the main production season is better than that of the secondary production season.

In everyone's impression, Colombia is only a major coffee trading country, but in fact, Colombia is also rich in fine coffee. At present, Colombian coffee beans account for 30% of the national output, and around the year 2000, the proportion is less than 5%. Thus it can be seen that the market for fine coffee has developed rapidly in recent years.

Boutique coffee bean producing areas are mostly concentrated in south-central Colombia, including HUILA, NARINO, TOLIMA, VALLE DEL CAUCA, CAUCA and other areas, which are mainly volcanic geology.

Commercial coffee bean producing areas are concentrated in the central and northern regions, including ANTIOQUIA (the capital Medillin), QUINDIO (the capital Armenia) and CALDAS (the capital Manizales). The first letter of the capital of these three regions, referred to as "MAM", is the largest coffee producing area in Colombia, which is relatively low in elevation.